Generation One

This lineage for Gideon in Generation three below is from Thomas Farquhar's
"History of the Bowles Family".
Included is an article by Harry Sutcliffe
that discusses this lineage and the facts supporting it or lack thereof. He also gives an alternate line
that looks very convincing.

Anderson and Jane first settled in Cumberland County, Virginia. In 1806, they
moved to Madison County, Kentucky. Five years later, they again moved to St. Louis
County, Missouri. A brother and sister are named in
his will.

Caleb was the first judge for Bonhomme Township in the Carondolet area. He
appears in the 1830 census as resident of that township. The next year he moved to
the Fenton area of the county. At some point, he became a superior court judge. He
would ride his horse into St. Louis and stay at the Greentree Tavern when court was in
session.

Caleb also established the first post office in Fenton in 1831 and acquired a permit to
operate a ferry crossing of the Meramec River at Fenton in 1833. He liked to make
furniture in his spare time. His tool collection is inventoried in his
probate records.

In December of 1835 Caleb had an attack in the law office of Henri Chouteau. He
died five months later on 10 May 1836 at the Greentree Tavern. Presumably, he was
too sick to be transported home. Caleb died in testate so his estate was
settled in probate court.

In 1870 Anderson and his wife Elizabeth were living with their two sons Samuel A. and Joseph W. and two hired hands in Bonhomme township, St. Louis County, Missouri according to the census of that year. Both boys were at school. The 1880 census has a very large household for the Anderson and Elizabeth in the same location:

At the age of eight Caleb was orphaned when his mother died, his father having died four years earlier.
After her death, his half brother Anderson acted as guardian for him and his younger brothers.

When Caleb was 20, he traveled overland to California where he and his brother George
held a valuable placer claim at Birchville, now a long forgotten ghost town near Dutch
Flat. At some point, both he and his brother returned to Missouri.
A Caleb Bowles appears as a member of I Company, 10th Infantry in the Confederate Army.
This is the same Company in which his brother George served, who's service is well documented.
After the war, Caleb decided to return to California as is documented by a
letter dated 1 Feb 1868 from San Francisco:
"I have arrived safe once more off of the Seas, on the Golden shores of the Pacific."

Ellen Patton came to San Francisco, California by ship via New York and the Panama
Isthmus. She then went to Stockton to teach school. They were married in 1868. The
photograph at right is thought to be of Caleb and his family.

Caleb is first cousin to California Senator George Hearst who is the father of William
Randolph Hearst. Ellen Patton and Phoebe Apperson (the wife of George Hearst) were
childhood friends in Franklin County. It's likely that Caleb and Ellen met through
their association with the Hearsts. Supporting this supposition was that fact that
they were married at the Hearst home in San Francisco. In addition, their daughter
Phoebe is named after Mrs. Hearst.

After their marriage, the Bowles originally lived at the mine. Something about
the location affected Susan Ellen's health so Caleb sold his share to his brother and
moved to Cambria or San Simeon in San Luis Obispo County, California.
They are shown there in the 1880 census. In the fall of 1887,
they moved to Contra Costa County, California were they lived until Caleb died.
Ellen and her son George then returned to San Luis Obispo County.
Ellen may have been living with her daughter Maragaret in 1907. Caleb and Ellen
are buried in the Dublin Cemetery, Dublin, California.

Caleb played the violin and was a member of the San Francisco Symphony according to his
daughter's recollection.

George and his brother Caleb shared a mining claim in Birchville, California. He
later returned to Missouri where he was married. During the Civil War, he fought on
the side of the Confederacy. Near the end of the war, he was taken prisoner and sent
to Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, near Sandusky, Ohio. His wife went to
Washington and asked President Lincoln for a pardon which he granted. After his
return, he ran a general store with his wife in House Spring. They later move to St.
Charles, Missouri.

In the 1870 census George Bowles and his wife Martha are shown living with Martha's family in Bonhomme Township, St. Louis County, Missouri. In the 1880 census George M. Bowles, his wife Marth, and three children are shown living in Jefferson County, Missouri. Susan's father Thomas Price, age 65, is also living with them. By the 1900 census, the family had acquired two more children and were back in Bonhomme Township.

William graduated from McDowell Medical College in St. Louis. In about 1850, Dr.
Bowles moved to Maries County where he was the first medical school graduate to live
there. A history of him was written in 1889.
The 1900 census has Wm H. Bowles, his wife E. E. Bowles, and all their living children.
In the 1910 census the family (William had died) were living St. Louis, Missouri.
Son John was going by Anderson. Sarah J. Harbison, age 67, was living with them.

The 1870 census has Edward, his wife Mary, and twins Addison and Anderson (difficult to read) in Crawford County.
Acccording to the 1880 census an E. B. Bowles, physician and a Sam A. Bowles were boarders in Maries County, Missouri.
Edward has a brother named Samual Addison. In the same census William 11, Anderson age 9,
and Addison age 9 were living with their grandparents, Anderson and Elizabeth Bowles in St. Louis County, Missouri.
John and James Bowles birth dates are from their draft registration cards.

Edward was a physician in Vienna, Maries County. Mary was generally known as Mollie.
She was killed when a when a tree fell on her. The information about Edward Bates is from an
1889 history.
The marriage of Mary to a Bowles is confirmed by her niece,
Phoebe (Bowles) Coats in a diary entry.
Mary is buried in a cemetery was part of William Hearst Bowles property.

BOWLES, Virginia b ca. 1844

m 12 Nov 1863 St. Louis County, Missouri James Harbison b ca. 1841

Aeton b ca. 1864

Edward b ca. 1866

Charles b ca. 1868

Eliza b 1870

The 1870 census has the family in Rock Township, Jefferson County, Missouri. The marriage is from the St. Louis County marriage book.

BOWLES, Joseph W. b ca. 1858 Missouri

m before 1880 Sarah

Josie

Mattie L.

James G.

Mary A.

Joseph and Sarah were living with Joesph's parents according to the 1880 census. In 1900, the census had them in St. Louis, Missouri with four children and two boarders including Charles Harbison who was probably a cousin.

The 1910 census has Thomas P. Bowles, his wife Lillie, and their four children in Bonhomme Township, St. Louis County, Missouri. The 1920 census has Thomas and Lily with four more children in the same place. Ten years later, the census had Thomas and Lilly with a new child and Edith and George missing. They were now in Yuba, Sutter County, California near where Thomas' father once prospected.

In 1907, Margaret and her brother Joseph traveled to California to visit their Cousin Phoebe.
While there, they took a six week trip tour of the state with Phoebe,
her husband Bethel, their children, her future husband, and his sister.
Margaret wrote a travel log of the experience.
Albert, Margaret, and their three living children appear in the 1930 census for Rolla, Missouri.
Cousin Phoebe visited with the family, who were still in Rolla, in May 1949.
She recorded the visit in her diary.
Margaret and Albert are buried at the Bowles cemetery located on William Hearst Bowles property.

In 1907 Joseph visited California with his sister Margaret as described above.
Joseph H. and Clara D. Bowles appear in the 1930 along with their four children in Central, St. Louis, Missouri.
Joe lived in Merced, Caifornia in Jan 1946 as was described in his cousin Phoebe (Bowles) Coats'
diary.

BOWLES, Thomas Kinsey b 23 Jan 1888 d 1965

m 1915 Susan Ashley b ca. 1889

Mary Emma b ca. 1921

Joe A. b ca. 1924

William b after 1930

A World War I draft card gives Thomas' birth date.
Thomas K. Bowles, his wife Susan A., and two of their children, Mary and Joe, appear in the 1930 census as living in Tacoma, Washington.
Thomas was an M. D. In January 1946, he visited his cousin Phoebe (Bowles) Coats.
There are several entries in
her diary about the visit.
One mentions a young son William.

BOWLES, Mary Louise b 3 Oct 1890 d 1987

m 10 Feb 1921 David Taylor Lenox b c. 1895 Missouri

David Taylor III b ca. 1923

William H. b ca. 1925

Merrietta b ca. 1928

Margaret Ann

This genealogy is constructed from diary entries
by Phoebe (Bowles) Coats, Mary's first cousin, when she visited in May 1949.
In addition, David T. Lenox II, Mary L., and three children appear in the 1930 census for Post Oak, Johnson, Missouri.
David was a farmer and had served during World War I.

BOWLES, Hortense Deborah b 20 Jan 1893 d 1990

m 9 Apr 1919 David M. Donan b 14 May 1874 d 28 Feb 1970

Elizabeth Ann b ca. 1922 m Harry Sutcliffe

Lucy Stuart b ca. 1930 m David Finch

Jean Coe b ca. 1924

David Alexander b ca. 1928

The 1930 census has David Donan, his wife Hortence, and four children in Ben Avon, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Both David and Hortense are listed as being born in Missouri. All their children were born in Pennsylvania. The husband of Elizabeth Ann did extensive research on his wife's family. Some of his work is reflected here. Harry died in 2006.

BOWLES, Lucy Jane b 25 Aug 1895 d Jun 1994 Maries County, Missouri

m Gifford Martin

Dorothy b ca. 1926

m Lloyd Bennetsen

Gifford Martin, his wife Lucy, and their child Dorothy appear in the 1930 census for St. Louis, Missouri.
Gifford was a salesman and had served in World War I.
Lucy and Lloyd are mentioned
in Lucy's cousin Phoebe's diary when she was visiting Missouri in 1946.
An obituary for Lucy appeared in the 22 Jun 1994 Maries County Gazette.

Margaret Bowles is listed as a teacher at the Tassajara school in Contra Costa County, California in 1892.
Her brother-in-law indicated
she taught there in 1893. Her parents and family had moved to the area in 1887.
When she was visited
by her sister in 1907, she was living in Watsonville.
Margaret and Clarence are buried in the Colfax Cemetery in Colfax, California.

After their marriage George and Anna moved to the ranch of George's widowed mother
Ellen which was a few miles outside of Cambria, California. In 1909 they moved to
New Almaden, Santa Clara County, California where they tried dairying, raising stock, and
general farming. They were accompanied by Ellen (Patton) Bowles. Ellen then
found a ranch in Hickman, California where the family moved in 1915. George had
traded their Santa Clara ranch for 250 acres in the Hickman precinct, one mile east of
Hickman. In 1956, Anna moved in with her daughter Ann to Santa Cruz. The
Hickman ranch was sold in 1958. George is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall with
gray eyes and black hair in the 1892 voter registration of Contra Costa County.

Generation Eight

The 1900 through 1930 census shows the family living in Perry, Oklahoma.
The attribution to Edward Bates Bowles as the father of William is based on the uniqueness of the name of William M. in the census and that both his parents were from Missouri.
A marriage record would be very useful.

BOWLES, Anderson P. b ca. 1870

m Ida b ca. 1871

The connection to Edward Bates Bowles is very tenous. The 1930 census has A. P. Bowles and his parents born in Missouri. In 1930, Anderson and his wife were living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is about 80 miles from William M. Bowles above.

BOWLES, Addison V b ca. 1870

m Kate b ca. 1876

Gladys b ca. 1897

Philander b ca. 1904

Glen b 1907

In the 1910 census Addison and his family were living in Sherrill Township, Texas County, Missouri. Addison and his parents are listed as born in Missouri.

Helen's obituary appeared in the Merced Sun Star. The date of her death given above may be the date of the obituary in which case her death was most likely a few days earlier. Her middle name is from the obiturary.

Ann dropped out of school after the eight grade. Sometime in the 1920's she moved
to Santa Cruz where she worked at the Santa Cruz Packing Company in Seabright.
She lived with her grandmother Kaiser at 28 Arbor Street.
After her grandmother's death, the house was sold and Ann purchased another.
In 1972, she sold that house and moved to Hughson to live with her sister Phoebe. Ann never married.

From 1925-1929, William served in the U.S. Navy.
When World War II started, Nelson joined the Merchant Marine and served until the end of the war.
When he returned home, he worked a dairyman on his father's ranch until it was sold in
1958. He then went to live with his mother and sister Ann in Santa Cruz.

George was living with his mother in 1930 and may have continued to do so until his marriage.
In 1940 he and his wife lived next to his mother on La Grange Road in Waterford. Living with them was his maternal uncle,
Charles E. Kaiser. George and Margaret later moved to Modesto, California where George was a truck driver.
A Margaret Bowles was an office manager for the same company as Syble Bowles below. George and Margaret are buried in Modesto Acacia Memorial Park Cemetery.

According to daughter Annette, her mother attended local school through her second year at Hughson Highschool.
She then went to live with her sister in Santa where she attended another year of high school and worked with her sister
at the Santa Cruz Packing Company.

At some point she returned to Hickman to marry Raymond. After their marriage, they lived on Raymond's father's orchard.
They would live there for the rest of their lives. Raymond is buried at the Lakewood Cemetery in Hughson.

Information about John's first marriage is sketchy. John was listed as married in the 1940 census,
but living with his parents without his wife.
In the same census Sybil Drake was single living with her parents in Oklahoma.
This confirms John was married to someone prior to his marriage to Syble. It is unclear who that is.
Annette Camagna Stransky, Sam's niece, mentions a Syble Bissell in her research. Another name uncovered was Helen Arlberg.

On 21 March 1941, Sam enlisted or was drafted into the U. S. Army as a Private.
He is shown as still being married.
After the war, the family lived in Waterford, Delhi, and Ceres all in Stanislaus County, California.
John worked as a handyman.
Syble worked as a bookkeeper at Foster Farms.
They are buried in the same plot in the Modesto Citizens Cemetery.
They didn't have children.

National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946